Opinions of the Illinois Court of Claims
The full text of the Court's published opinions, 1880–2025, taken from the official volumes. Every opinion links to the page of the source PDF it came from.
Coverage. Volumes 24 and 32 are incomplete, pending re-scanning by the Clerk's office. Extracted text and fields may contain OCR errors; the official PDF is the source of record. See volume status.
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- Decades Opinion counts and award totals for each decade from the 1880s to the 2020s.
- Respondents A state agency is named as respondent in 6,703 opinions. Most often: Illinois Department of Transportation (500); Illinois Department of Mental Health (391); Illinois Department of Corrections (379).
- Topics Overview pages for crime victim compensation, wrongful imprisonment, lapsed appropriation and line of duty compensation.
- Outcomes 6,263 awarded, 2,269 denied and 639 dismissed in published opinions. Search 165,954 further disposition records.
- Data All 77 official volumes (1–77) with source PDFs, page counts and processing status.
- About Where the text comes from, how it was extracted, and its known limits.
Also: governing statutes, court decisions about the Court of Claims, and opinions by category (6 categories).